Improvement in bitters



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE,

JOSEPH S. O. ROWLAND, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BITTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent 0. 173,345, dated February8, 1876; application filed December 23, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH S. 0. Row- LAND,M. D., of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and in the Stateof Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMedical Compounds; and

do hereby declare that the following is a full, v clear, and exactdescription thereof.

The nature of my invention consists in a medical compound for the cureof all inflammatory diseases of the kidneys, bladder, &c., as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

My compound is composed of the following ingredients, in about thefollowing proportions,viz: Ohimaha, otherwise known as yerba buena,three ounces; bark of white-ash root, eight ounces; angle-worm root, sixounces; yellow-willow bark, two ounces; oil of neroli, three drops;chloroform, one dram; alcohol, three pints; glycerine, one-half pint;water, five pints.

The roots and barks are treated by percolation or maceration in theusual manner, and the various ingredients mixed together cold, forming amedicated hitters to be used principally for dyspepsia, rheumatism, andall inflammatory diseases of the kidneys and blad-' der.

Angle-worm root is the Indian name of a root found in this country, andis indigenous to the southwest, near the 35th parallel, and commonlyfound in the Cherokee country. It belongs botanically to the Veronicaclass,

and is very closely allied to the Veronica afic- JOS. S G. ROWLAND.

Witnesses:

J. M. MASON, H. A. HALL.

